I am so drawn to blog designs that have a distinct personality, whether it be in color palette, layout, writing style, or any combination of the three.
In no particular order, here are some of my favorite blog designs and why.
tanster.com cheatsheet: April 2015
Here’s a cheatsheet of all the resources I use to manage tanster.com.
I click through to this page several times a day!
EAT24: master of voice and tone
Man oh man. I am just in love with EAT24‘s voice and tone.
And if I could marry an entire writing team, I so freaking would.
This is just one sample of their weekly emails.
Poached egg and spinach on grilled bread
Sandy decided to make this for breakfast today.
It’s a recipe by Ted Allen, host of Food Network’s All-Star Academy. The recipe appeared in the April 13, 2015, issue of PEOPLE.
Sandy improvised with what we had in the house.
tanster.com color palette
The Hueman WordPress theme sets the two sidebar headers at #3B8DBD (blue) and #82B965 (green), so I wanted to come up with a color palette that would complement those defaults.
WordPress theme paragraph styles
Whenever I shop for a new theme, I look at this page of paragraph styles first to see how elements are formatted.
Continue reading “WordPress theme paragraph styles”Recipe: 300 calorie breakfast burrito (yeah, it’s small)
A well made breakfast burrito is one of the great pleasures of life.
And yet, the older I get, the harder it is to incorporate these little beauties into a healthy diet.
Especially since I track everything I eat with MyFitnessPal, and am keenly aware of where every calorie comes from. Six days out of seven, I log 1,300 to 1,600 calories (depending how much I exercise that day).
Then every Sunday, I enjoy myself one glorious CHEAT DAY.
Continue reading “Recipe: 300 calorie breakfast burrito (yeah, it’s small)”And so another blog begins
After creating a blog for The Office, and then another one for QuickBooks, I decided to create a personal blog.
With all my notes and things that I want to keep track of. Mainly about blogging, WordPress, gadgets, and other techie stuff, with an occasional cheat day food photo thrown in when I’m feeling decadent. :)
Here are some random thoughts about the whole process of starting a blog.
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